DerekC
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That's absolutely right. I must have been awake in that lesson, too!Wheatstone invented bridges as well
That's absolutely right. I must have been awake in that lesson, too!Wheatstone invented bridges as well
Well,this hasn’t drawn much interest,time for a clue.Who was the LSWRs Superintendent of Telegraphs from 1860 to 1870?
It is Edward Tyer but that’s not the correct answer to my question.I'm reasonably sure it's Mr Tyer - but I think he might have been Edward.
Mr Block?Well,this hasn’t drawn much interest,time for a clue.
His name is synonymous with that company’s block instruments.
Mr Absolute?
He his not called Mr Instrument either.Mr Block?
SIR WILLIAM HENRY PREECE, K.C.B., F.R.S., Past-President Ins. C.E., and formerly Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office, died at Penrhos, Carnarvon, on the 6th November, 1913, in his eightieth year. Born at Bryn Helen, Carnarvon, on the 15th February, 1834, he WAS educated at King’s College, London, and gained practical experience in the offices of the late Edwin and Latimer Clark, then engineers to the Electric Telegraph Company. In 1853 Preece joined the staff of that company, which subsequently became by amalgamation the Electrical and International Telegraph Company, and after rapid promotion was appointed Superintendent of the Southern Division. From 1858 to 1862 he was nlso Engineer to the Channel Islands Telegraph Company, and in 1860 he became Superintendent of Telegraphs on the London and South Western Railway, where he introduced the Preece block system of working single lines and a system of electric communication between passengers and guard. When in 1870 the business of the various telegraph companies (about thirty in number) was transferred to the State, the subject of this memoir was appointed Engineer for the Southern Division of the State system with headquarters at Southampton.
Is the correct answer. Your turn to ask on…..Sir William Henry Preece
Are they not part of Hitachi Rail these days?Ansaldo?
I think they are! Difficult to keep up with all the changes these days!Are they not part of Hitachi Rail these days?
Go on,be a devil and ask a questionthink the floor belongs to @D6130
Err....what? Oh aye, it must be me again. I'm afraid you're asking for yet another obscure Italian railway question at the moment.Go on,be a devil and ask a question
That's about it. The loco crews hadn't realised that the train had come to a stand and was rolling backwards, so they applied full power in forward gear....resulting in a Blue Peter at Durham situation, which almost instantly filled the tunnel with poisonous fumes and suffocated the hapless victims. Your turn to set the next question.That would be when a double headed steam hauled freight stalled in the tunnel. There were around 600 stowaway passengers on board and over 500 suffocated in the tunnel.
Thank you. Something nearer home (at least for me!).
Which small Yorkshire town once had three railway stations operated by three different pre-grouping companies and all situated in Station Road?
Although Pontefract had (at least) 3 stations they were not all on Station Road.Pontefract?
Wath upon Dearne is correct. The three stations were situated on the Great Central, Hull and Barnsley and Midland Railways.Wath upon Dearne?